New Flyer already has experience building hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell buses.

The province is also putting up $100,000 to create an electric-vehicle learning and demonstration centre at Red River College.

"This is exciting. We are working together to develop an entirely electric bus to get families around in cities all over North America [and] we're also creating opportunities for young people right here in the province to become leaders in developing and building clean, electric vehicles and helping cut greenhouse-gas emissions," Selinger stated in a news release.